AO1
Any behaviour that violates the social norm
• implicit norms
• Generally accepted rules of behaviour in a given society
• E.G: dress code for different genders and ages , queueing in shop
• explicit norms
• Set down in law
• E.g; stealing + murdering
AO3
S: CLEAR
• clear way of defining abnormality
• Bulimia - deviation from social norms of eating behaviour
W: DEPENDS ON CONTEXT
W: HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSE
• historically - meten control Minority ethnic groups
W: CULTURALLY RELATIVE
W: ERA DEP
, Failure to function adeq
AO1
Abnormal participant unable to complete day-to-day tasks
• prevent person from carrying out the range of behaviours that society would expect from them
• unable to hold down job
• Normal thing for person of working age
• have conversations with others
ROSENHAN + SELIGMAN:
• Observe a discomfort
• May cause others to feel embarrassed upset or threatened
• disrupt social interactions and relationships
• unpredictable
• Does not fit situation
• Over enthusiastic over anxious
• irrational
• doesn't make sense to others
• Communicate with them in a reasonable way
• maladaptive
• Dysfunctional
• Prevent person from being able to adjust appropriately to situation
AO3
S: SUBJ EXP
• acknowledges patient is important
• Relates to individual experience
• More likely gain deep understanding of their ab
• Rather than trying to apply generalised theory
W: DEV FROM SOC NORMS
• discriminating
W: SUBJ JUDEGEMENTS
W: MAL DOES NOT ALWAYS MEAN ABNORMAL
• Gandhi
W: C + E
• may FFA due to psychopathology
• Some may be mentally ill as a result of not being able to function adequately
• Some people with psychopathologies function at a very high-level
• hold down jobs and have good relationship relationships